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Media Release
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... cellphone into a mobile panic button by alerting four family members or friends of an emergency involving the subscriber, as well as becoming a vital source of medical information for paramedics at the ...Monday, 26 July 2010 -
Business governance
Category: Articles/Other
... pension funds and medical schemes. The IoDSA is on track to release these modules at the end of June for live testing with users. Already, Oosthuizen says the ability to constantly develop and improve ...Monday, 26 July 2010 -
Financial crisis and morality
Category: Articles/Other
... licensed within a legislated framework, but also well organised in legally recognised professional bodies with codes of conduct to back up oaths. If a legal or medical practitioner does not play by the ...Monday, 21 June 2010 -
Legislation Changes Regarding Medical aid and Subsistence Allowance Rates Effective 1st March
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
Johannesburg, 1st March, 2010 – The full amount of medical aid contributions paid by an employer will be a taxable fringe benefit from 1st March and subsistence allowance rates for travel increase today. ...Monday, 01 March 2010 -
Softline VIP
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
Correct interpretation of changes in taxation of medical aid is essential, says Softline VIP With the new financial year imminent, companies should take care to verify that their payroll service providers ...Friday, 26 February 2010 -
SARS changes
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... effect from 1 March, the tax consequences of medical aid, retirement annuities and travel allowances are also changing. “The full company medical aid contribution is now taxable. However, the tax deductible ...Wednesday, 03 February 2010 -
Epidemics and 2010 cancellations
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... meet the cost of a European claim?” explains Fern. Similarly, if an employee falls ill while travelling abroad would their South African medical aid cover them for a three week sojourn in an intensive ...Tuesday, 12 January 2010 -
NHI in South Africa
Category: Articles/Other
... the guidelines are already irking some. Medical and pharmaceutical organisations have been trying to make sense of how they may find their place in the NHI and, more importantly, whether the NHI is an ...Monday, 07 December 2009 -
Post-crisis or in crisis – what to do?
Category: Articles/Development
... on items such as food and medical costs have nearly doubled over the same period. A couple aged 70, with a pension fund of R3 million, who draws according to actuarial tables after tax approximately R17 ...Monday, 07 December 2009 -
Alexander Forbes Health
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... decision based on their medical diagnosis. This is because, increasingly, the definition of disability is related to a person’s functional ability to perform. In addition, claims departments now include ...Thursday, 03 December 2009 -
Pension or Provident Fund
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... you get the more expensive things get and other needs such as medical expenses end up taking a massive chunk of your retirement income,” he says. It is easier to fall into the trap of not saving enough ...Thursday, 19 November 2009 -
FAIS Ombud Deternimations
Category: Articles/Other
... and was declared “medically disabled with no recovery”. Mr Leighton’s son, Adam called Wesbank in order to cancel the debit order so that the ceded policy could settle the debt. Wesbank advised that they ...Tuesday, 06 October 2009 -
National Health Insurance
Category: Articles/Other
... minister also rejected industry fears about the consultation process and assured a conference of the Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF), representing 95% of southern Africa’s medical schemes, that the NHI ...Tuesday, 08 September 2009 -
Mandatory Health Insurance
Category: Articles/Other
A gathering storm It is radical, overdue, aims for equity, is hugely expensive and needs lengthy, careful, consultative ‘phasing in’. It will forever change the face of private and public medical practice ...Wednesday, 26 August 2009 -
Managing Debt
Category: Articles/Other
... distress need to continue with their life and medical aid cover and retirement planning. The term “debt counselling” was introduced into South African law by the National Credit Act (NCA), which makes ...Wednesday, 26 August 2009 -
Invest in the leisure industry in South Africa and Mauritius
Category: Articles/Investments
... as manufacturing, warehousing, offices, shops, hotels and medical practices. It is also worth mentioning that Minister Sithanen addressed investors at the above-mentioned event on taxation in Mauritius. ...Wednesday, 26 August 2009 -
Editor's note - Sep 2008
Category: Articles/Editors Notes
... dealing with future uncertainty in the face of client demands for certainty. These are not simple challenges. But professionals are not meant to have simple challenges. The medical bias in this edition ...Thursday, 11 September 2008 -
Print
Category: Advertising/Advertising
... Brokers, Intermediary Corporates as well as Owners, CEOs and MDs of JSE listed companies, as well as Medical Aid Schemes. Readership ...Wednesday, 30 January 2008 -
Trust + communication = great service
Category: 'Uncategorised Content'
... they trust the person? It is more often the case that trust is a given, and that competence is the chief criterion upon which a medical professional is selected. Unfortunately, truly professional advice-based ...Monday, 31 May 2010 -
Allan Gray
Category: Articles/Profiles
... Its clients comprise institutional investors, principally retirement funds, medical aid schemes and endowments, and individuals. Clients invest through either segregated accounts or collective investment ...Thursday, 29 May 2008 -
NEWSFLASH!
Category: Articles/Other
... clients such as retirement funds and medical aids. Prior to this appointment in April this year, Robert worked as an independent consultant for two years having spent five years with ipac (now acsis), ...Tuesday, 27 May 2008 -
The conventional inadequate
Category: Articles/Other
... dread disease cover, medical aid, etc. With regard to investment, again it is primarily a paper-based system of asset accumulation. Fixed income components are usually achieved through interest-bearing ...Monday, 05 May 2008 -
Foreword
Category: Articles/Other
... such as retirement funds and medical aids. Before entering the financial services industry Robert was Director of the MBA Programme at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town (GSB). ...Monday, 05 May 2008 -
Ills befall healthcare
Category: Articles/Other
... the registrar of medical schemes, Patrick Masobe, had threatened to take private hospitals to the Competition Commission if they fail to justify their price increases planned for this year. According to ...Wednesday, 20 February 2008 -
Personal finance for women
Category: Articles/Other
... the following expenses: • Housing costs (rent, bond etc); • Food costs (necessities, not luxuries); • Transport costs; • Necessary clothing; • School fees; and • Medical ...Friday, 25 January 2008 -
Medical choices
Category: Articles/Other
Medical scheme membership is considered by many to be more important today than ever. Why? Because medical inflation keeps rising, making medical care and medicine more expensive every day. Moreover, should ...Friday, 25 January 2008 -
Crime not just local
Category: Articles/Other
... Even more important is health coverage. Travel insurance gives the traveller the peace of mind that he or she will return to South Africa, no matter what. Benefits include medical expenses, evacuation, ...Tuesday, 22 January 2008 -
Who to blame?
Category: Articles/Other
... whichever is the lesser, per member per month.The attempt to de-legitimise the minimal income earned by brokers comes from the Registrar of Medical Schemes, who has always had an uneasy relationship with ...Tuesday, 22 January 2008 -
Serving the client
Category: Articles/Other
... of death, and provision in the event of disability, estates, wills and trusts and tax. I would say that medical cover and short-term insurance are also important areas that would need to be flagged by ...Tuesday, 22 January 2008
